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with·out (wit̸h o̵ut′, wit̸h-)
adverb
- on the outside; externally
- outside a building or place; out-of-doors
Etymology: ME withuten < OE withutan < with, with + utan, from outside, without < ut, out
- Now Rare at, on, to, or toward the outside of throngs within and without the city walls
- Archaic beyond without his reach
- not with; lacking; not accompanied by a shirt without buttons, lonely without her
- free from without fear
- with avoidance of to pass by without speaking
- Obsolete besides
noun
Now Rare the outside or the exterior
conjunction
Dialectal unless they can't go, without they get permission
without Idioms
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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